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IFAC is concerned with automatic control and its representation in the fields of engineering, science and the impact of control technology on society.

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🤖 Recap: an IFAC Activity Fund project in Ireland taught primary school kids control theory — voice-guiding a robot through a maze, placing numbers on an electronic number line. 450+ participants reached.

📄 https://t.co/4T7Yn0sYE2

#AutomaticControl #STEM

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🔍 Call for Papers — SAFEPROCESS 2027
Theme: "AI for Safety"

📍 TU Delft, Netherlands
📅 from Jun 29 to Jul 2, 2027

⚡ Sep 30: session & tutorial proposals
⚡ Oct 31: regular & invited papers

👉 https://t.co/KVrRempdSW

#AutomaticControl #SAFEPROCESS2027

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🎓 IFAC Distinguished Lecturer Bruno Siciliano gave his plenary "Robot Manipulation and Control" at ASCC 2026 in Bali: nonprehensile manipulation, learning meets model-based control, aerial robotics, shared control.

📄 https://t.co/4T7Yn0sYE2

#AutomaticControl #Robotics

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📈 One IFAC triennium in numbers:

➡️ 106 conferences from 35 NMOs in 38 countries and regions
➡️ IFAC journals ranked Q1 in the JCR: from 3 to 5
➡️ A World Congress first: 570 papers submitted to journals at the same time

https://t.co/4T7Yn0sYE2

#AutomaticControl

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🇪🇺 ECC 2027 — 25th European Control Conference

Jul 13–16, 2027 in Brussels, Belgium. In cooperation with @IFAC_Control.

✅ European Control Award
✅ Paper + Student awards
✅ Student bursaries

👉 https://t.co/nA2RDlsF7t

#AutomaticControl #ControlEngineering #ECC2027

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🛠️ IFAC's technical structure had barely changed since 2002. In three years:

➡️ 950 keywords streamlined to 520
➡️ New CC10 on Power and Energy Systems
➡️ Technical Committees from 39 to 41
➡️ TC Senior Members introduced

https://t.co/4T7Yn0sYE2

#AutomaticControl

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🌊🤖 Recap: 16th IFAC CAMS 2025 (Aug 25–28, Wuhan, China) — a first for mainland China.

200+ participants, 155 papers, 14 sessions on marine robotics & autonomy. Hosted by @2024_HUST.

Video ⬇️ https://t.co/TeQzcD150E

#AutomaticControl #CAMS2025

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😄 Control engineering, but make it funny.

The IFAC Cartoon Archive gathers the lighter side of feedback loops, stability & the daily life of control engineers.

👉 https://t.co/aKdjtYMSt7

#AutomaticControl #ControlEngineering #ControlHumor

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📖 The IFAC Story is now an e-book.

Trace the people, ideas & milestones behind automatic control's international home, with a Secretariat in Laxenburg, Austria since 1978.

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https://t.co/cPG2G3Casy

#AutomaticControl #ControlEngineering #IFACHistory

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🇨🇿 PDES 2027 — Programmable devices and embedded systems — Call for Papers is open.

From May 19 to 21, 2027 in Ostrava, Czech Republic.

📅 Draft papers due October 1, 2026.

👉 https://t.co/LuaYXiT1Ny

#AutomaticControl #ControlEngineering

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🔁 "In feedback control, performance is judged by the output. The judgment therefore belongs to you."

Dongil "Dan" Cho's final message as IFAC President. He hands the presidency to Maria Prandini (2026–2029).

https://t.co/4T7Yn0sYE2

#AutomaticControl

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The IFAC seal has a new keeper. 🤝

At the Closing Ceremony in Busan, Dongil "Dan" Cho handed the IFAC presidency to Maria Prandini, who leads the federation through 2026–2029.

Thank you, Dan. Welcome, Maria.

#IFAC2026 #AutomaticControl

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The last awards of the 23rd IFAC World Congress, presented at the Closing Ceremony in Busan. 🏅

Congratulations to every recipient — and thank you to the committees who read everything to get here.

#IFAC2026 #Busan #AutomaticControl

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The 23rd IFAC World Congress closed with an orchestra made of its own delegates. 🎻

The IFAC Control Orchestra played the Closing Ceremony at BEXCO — researchers on stage with instruments they brought from home. Standing ovation.

Thank you, Busan.

#IFAC2026 #AutomaticControl

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"From Event-Triggered to Neuromorphic Control: A System-Theoretic Perspective"

Maurice Heemels gave the closing plenary at the IFAC World Congress. Why compute and transmit on a clock when you could do it when something actually happens?

#IFAC2026 #AutomaticControl

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The whole Congress at one seated dinner — a first for an IFAC World Congress. 🎶

The Congress Banquet filled Exhibition Center 1 at BEXCO last night, with three performances over the evening.

Thanks to the organising committee.

#IFAC2026 #Busan #AutomaticControl

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"Learning and Adaptation in Uncertain Dynamical Systems: Theory, Algorithms, and Challenges"

Lei Guo (Chinese Academy of Sciences): the Thursday plenary at the IFAC World Congress — closed with his acknowledgment as an IFAC Distinguished Lecturer.

#IFAC2026 #AutomaticControl

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About 50 upper-elementary and middle school students, at a World Congress, building robots. 🤖

IFAC 2026 Young Control Explorers at BEXCO: robot talks, a science show — and their own robots at the workbenches.

#IFAC2026 #AutomaticControl #STEM

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The 2026 RoboRacer Grand Prix has a winner.

40+ teams, the first competition of its kind at an IFAC World Congress.

First place: team InTheEND, Soongsil University. Congratulations — and to everyone who got a car round that track at all.

#IFAC2026 #AutomaticControl #Robotics

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The IFAC Foundation Diversity & Inclusion Award 2026 went to Girls in Control — handed over by Foundation Chair Frank Allgöwer to Keiko Shimizu, Steffi Knorn, Damiano Varagnolo and Roxanne Jackson. 🏆

#IFAC2026 #AutomaticControl #GirlsInControl